Joomla is okay. There are better CMS out there. Modx comes immediately to mind (ease of use for end user is main recommendation for this one) also Wordpress for smaller sites is MUCH MUCH easier, Drupal, E107, Textpattern . . .
Templating to any dynamic program is quite a bit more complicated than a dreamweaver template. You might be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Especially given this rather esoteric statement--
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Granted, joomla runs under Unix but that opens up a completely open source website. This means getting some knowledge on the best choice for the OS - Knoppix, etc.
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Joomla and the other php programs run on Linux/Apache/Mysql/Php servers (well, rumor has it that you can get them to work on windoze, but not as easily.) It doesn't matter what OS you have on your own machine. I use three different 'puters for development, none of them Linux. But I upload to linux hosting.